Contact deleting Facebook bug causes new email user problems

The social network has blamed the latest problems, prompted by recent changes to make email addresses more consistent across its site, on a software bug.

Many Blackberry and Android users who activated Facebook’s contact sync feature this week found that some of their contact email addresses had been automatically replaced with @facebook.

The new synching feature is designed to automatically update email contact information on users’ handsets when a Facebook friend changes their primary email address.

But the US company admitted that ‘for people on certain devices, a bug meant that the device was pulling the last email address added to the account rather than the primary address, resulting in @facebook.com addresses being pulled.’

It follows recent criticism from many users who had the email address displayed on their profile changed to @Facebook with little notification.